If enough conservatives cross the floor, maybe Canadians will recognize the Liberal party as the progressive conservative party it is and let the NDP own the left.

1-2% of the new housing investment can be a heck of a lot more than 1-2% of the bedrooms if you arent building the median oversized single detached.

Yep. First austerity, then a populist con man will show up promising to fix everything that was broken by 40 years of neoliberal pain, but will happily do even more.

50k application fee from the employer, and that goes straight to college and universities to eliminate the need over time.

I do exactly this, but it doesn’t protect your privacy. That one IP address is literally tied to your credit card number and you are the only person using it.

They will only apply it to retail VPNs. You think capitalists play by the same rules?

Small scale version. I heard from some kids that they wanted to play Roblox at school. IT had blocked it on the Wifi. The kids advice to each other was “go on the play store, search VPN, and install whatever one is free.” - IT absolutely isn’t making those kids safer.

They are only interested in retail, anonymizing VPNs. If you spin up your own VPN you are still 1:1 linked to that IP address. If you use a work VPN, they fully track everything. The anonymizing ones that dont track users and share an IP between many users are a threat to mass surveilance.

These laws tend to effect any company that does business in the state or country. Any commercial service or company wanting to make money from UK customers will be required to implement the VPN block for all their customers.

There are already (crappy) ip blocklists available specifically for retail VPN providers. They don’t include corporate vpn providers because capitalism. Anonymizing VPN services have limited IP blocks that are easily tracked.

Uuhh, beyond the fucked up publishing system, your advisor was a self destructive dick. It was his job to pay that. His lab and career benefit and hes the one that gets funding for research operations.

And a few years later rich folk start mass downloading the same databases to train LLM models using the exact same methods to sell access to those. No FBI.

A device on your local lan is pretty accessible. Don’t open ports from the internet and be sure to back up important data. Something like homeassistant or pi-hole on a raspberry pi is very accessible. Remote access is where thing start getting tricky.

If you want to host something publicly, buy a $5 VPS and install a web server on it. Try hosting static websites. Don’t put anything sensitive on it and if something happens to it, you are out your 5 bucks for the month and learned a lesson.

“Vigilance” never worked against measles. It looks like a flu or even a cold in a lot of people. Vaccines worked

That’s not valuing the education system, that’s looking for an advantage. As in, “I got mine, fuck you.”

This is great! TVO kids is already awesome, now there are 2 public, commercial-free options that don’t exist just to make kids go crazy over the latest plastic toy.

Not only has he signed multiple trade agreements, but the trade data is showing a solid shift way from the US to other countries already -despite the fact that most industry works on contracts that are longer than 8 months. The fact that it’s already moving is impressive. https://newsinteractives.cbc.ca/features/2025/canada-international-trade/

Or, as was originally planned, Negotiate a global minimum tax with the EU and other major markets. Then better yet, remove DRM anti-circumvention legislation. That way Canadian companies can openly jailbreak our phones and offer alternative app stores on the devices we own -with no American middleman taking a third of the money we spend.

To clarify that - cryptography (and hence VPNs) work, but OPSEC is hard. And, reading-between-the-lines, the user seems like a bit of a dolt.

Indeed. Best to think of disk encryption as protection from physical access -i.e., theft, but also accidentally recycled drives later on. It provides zero protection from somebody attacking your running system, that’s the job of the operating system and client software like web browsers. While the system is running, the drive is decrypted and unprotected.

I just prefer fde because it’s simpler. There’s no guessing about what needs to be encrypted and what doesn’t. There isn’t any human-noticiable performance impact on modern computers, so there’s not really a downside besides having 2 password prompts whenever I actually do a full reboot.